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Apr 8, 2012, 1:07 PM
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For Mexican police, splashy arrests trump criminal convictions
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For Mexican police, splashy arrests trump criminal convictions By TIM JOHNSON
It all began with confusion over a name, and it still isn't over for Aldo Christopher Granada Rivera. After eight months in a Mexican prison, he developed a facial tic and flinches at the sound of sirens.
Granada finally went free. But he's one of many victims of Mexican law enforcement officials' practice of parading detainees in public "perp walks" and public news conferences, hoping to regain the trust of a citizenry besieged by organized crime.
Human rights officials say Mexican authorities have nabbed innocent people repeatedly and smeared them in front of television cameras to burnish their image as crime fighters. They demand an end to the practice.
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